Job 4:7
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7 “Think now, who that was innocent ever perished?
Or where were the upright cut off?(A)
Psalm 37:25
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25 I have been young and now am old,
yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken
or their children begging bread.(A)
2 Peter 2:9
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9 then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trial and to keep the unrighteous until the day of judgment, when they will be punished(A)
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Acts 28:4
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4 When the local people saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “This man must be a murderer; though he has escaped from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”(A)
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Job 36:7
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7 He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous,
but with kings on the throne
he sets them forever, and they are exalted.(A)
Job 8:20
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20 “See, God will not reject the blameless,
nor take the hand of evildoers.(A)
Ecclesiastes 9:1-2
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Take Life as It Comes
9 All this I laid to heart, examining it all, how the righteous and the wise and their deeds are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hate one does not know. Everything that confronts them 2 is vanity,[a] since the same fate comes to all, to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil,[b] to the clean and the unclean, to those who sacrifice and those who do not sacrifice. As are the good, so are the sinners; those who swear are like those who shun an oath.(A)
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Ecclesiastes 7:15
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The Riddles of Life
15 In my vain life I have seen everything; there are righteous people who perish in their righteousness, and there are wicked people who prolong their life in their evildoing.(A)
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Job 9:22-23
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22 It is all one; therefore I say,
‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’(A)
23 When disaster brings sudden death,
he mocks at the calamity[a] of the innocent.(B)
Footnotes
- 9.23 Meaning of Heb uncertain
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